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With striking speed, the widespread debate around data centers has become a fault line in American communities, cutting across political parties and forging unexpected alliances.
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The Commons has supported Grant County with food security initiatives since 2004 .Scott Brocato talked with The Commons’ executive director Ben Rasmussen about their mission, as well as their upcoming Gala in the Garden event on September 26th. -
A look back at the week's top stories and interviews with KC Counts. This week, we hear from regional experts on food insecurity, how to make a midlife you love, and learn about a ballot item for the DASWCD. What's that? Listen and find out! -
On Thursday the New Mexico Supreme Court voted unanimously to lift the stay on the AI data centers air quality permit and denied challenge by environmental group. -
35 hunger strikers ranging from city council members to local influencers participated in the strike, going without food for 24 hours. -
Bob Moore, El Paso Matters President and CEO, covers top stories each week.
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Customs and Border Protection said in a statement to The Associated Press that “border wall panel installation is underway” in a 47-mile stretch of Hudspeth County in west Texas known as Big Bend 1. -
Elsie Begay, her granddaughter Lucy Allison Mike, and Begay’s best friend Dora Franklin died in the flood Tuesday near Newcomb, New Mexico, a community of about 400 people, family members said Friday. -
Mount Taylor is sacred to the Navajo Nation, the Hopi Tribe, and the pueblos of Laguna, Acoma and Zuni. -
Attorneys representing the state of New Mexico told jurors that targeted political ads, attempting to lower Democratic turnout during the 2016 election, used Facebook data sold to a political consulting firm, during opening statements in a trial over the platform's data protections.
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German Chancellor Freidrich Merz conceded that the night spells "disaster" for the political center, but assured the public he'd push ahead with his federal agenda of tax and welfare reforms. -
While many Republican candidates, even in some critical tossup races, still back President Trump's baseless claims about election integrity, some GOP voters say they are ready to move on. -
The U.S. gets nearly a third of its pork from Iowa. One family is making the switch from pigs to more sustainable specialty mushrooms and trying to show other pig farmers how they did it. -
United Nations head António Guterres returns to New York for his final U.N. General Assembly as diplomacy falters over wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the global body faces deep divisions. -
Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse were being extradited to the U.S. on Sunday to face justice in Florida.
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